Serval drier



DCC. 18, 1934. E, R BORUFF 1,984,821

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Patented Dec. 18, 1934 UNITEDA STATES `iilrrEN'r OFFICE snnvar. imma Earl n. Borna, nea-uit, Mien. Application June 1s, 1934, serial No. 731,199

s claims. (o1. air-ss) This invention aims to provide a drier adapted to be hung on the back of a chair, a picture frame, a towel rack, a shower bath rod, or any place where hooks will catch, for the purpose of suspending garments, such as ladies lingerie, or baby clothes, small washings and the like, whilst they are being dried.

The invention aims to provide a device of the class described which can be hung up readily in any convenient place, novel means being supplied for holding the garments which are to be dried.

A further object of the invention is to provide novel means whereby the device may be folded down into small compass when not in use.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the invention appertains.

With the above and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made Within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 shows in end elevation, a device constructed in accordance with the invention, mounted on a chair back Fig. 2 is an elevation;

Fig. 3 is a top plan; i

Fig. 4 is a detail of one of the fingers and attendant parts.

1n carrying out the invention, there is pro--Y each other, the rods 4 being arranged at right angles to the rods 2 and 3. Any suitable means may be provided for connecting the rods 2 and 3 to the rods 4 rigidly. For instance, the parts specified may be connected by T-shaped sockets, marked by the numeral 5, although welding may be employed in the place of the sockets 5.

The inner rod 2 and the outer rod 3 project beyond the end rods-4 to form fingers 6. Retainers 7, which may be rings of wire, are mounted in circumferential grooves 8 formed in the ngers. Grips 9 are supplied and may be of any desired construction. A conventional form of grip is shown in the drawing, each grip comprising jaws 10 having seats 11 on their inner edges, intermediate their ends, the seats 11 receiving tubular springs 12 having arms 14, the ends of which are received in notches 15 formed in the outer surfaces of the arms of the grips. The construction is common and well-known, being that of an ordinary spring clothes pin, although some other kind of grip may be used. The fingers 6 at the ends of the rods or members 2 and 3 pass through the tubular springs 12, and, thus, the grips 9 are mounted on the fingers for swinging movement, back and forth, in the direction of the arrows/A in Fig. 1.

The retainers 7 prevent the grips 9 from sliding oir the fingers 6, the grips 9 being interposed between the retainers 7 and the end members 4 of the frame 1, or, more specifically, between the retainers 7 and the sockets 5, if the sockets are used.

Tubular bearings 16 are secured to the end rods 4 and are located nearer to the inner rod 2 than to the outer rod 3. In the bearings 16, shafts 17 are mounted for rocking movement. 'I'he shafts 17 are supplied at their outer ends with transverse projections 18, adapted to overhang and engage the end rods 4 of the frame 1. At their inner ends, the shafts 17 are supplied with arms 19 disposed at an obtuse angle to the shafts, the arms terminating at their inner ends in downwardly opening hooks `20 having outwardly-inclined ends 21 which are rounded as shown at 22, the construction being such that the device may be mounted readily on any accessible article, such as the back 23 of a chair.

When the parts are arranged as shown in Fig. 1, the projections 18 on the shafts 17 engage the outer sides of the end rods 4 of the frame 1 and hold the hooks 20 substantially at right angles to the plane defined by the frame 1. The articles which are to be dried may be suspended by means of the grips 9.

When the occasion for the use of the device has I passed, the hooks 20 may be folded inwardly, into the dotted line position of Fig. 3, so that they lie substantially in a common plane, and the `grips 9 may be swung on the fingers 6 until the grips lie substantially in a common plane. The device, when not in use, is flat, and will occupy but little space. The structure is simple but it will be found thoroughly effective for the ends in view. It may be used to suspend light articles from a chair back or anything else, and when the occasion for the use of the article has passed, it may be folded up into such condition that it will occupy little space when stored away.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is:

1. In a device of the class described, a frame comprising inner and outer r and end rods connecting the inner and outer rods, the inner and outer rods projecting beyond the end rods to form fingers, grips pivotally mounted on the ngers, suspension hooks, and means for connecting the suspension hooks to the end rods, for folding. into approximately parallel relation to the frame.

2. In a device of the class described, a substantially horizontal frame comprising inner and outer rods and end rods connecting the inner and outer rods; article-suspending means carried by the frame, shafts disposed parallel to the end rods and having upwardly inclined arms extended backwardly across the inner rod, the arms terminating in downwardly-opening support-engaging hooks, and means for Journaling the shafts on the end rods, whereby the hooks may be swung downwardly into approximate parallelism with the frame, the arms constituting means for carrying V the hooks inwardly, and toward each other, when the hooks are swung downwardly as aforesaid.

3. A device of the class described, constructed as set forth in claim 2, 4and further characterized by the fact that shafts have transverse projections which engage the end rods to hold the hooks in upstanding, substantially vertical, support-engazing position.

EARL R. BORUFF. 

